Inu Kaiba: The idea came to me at like… midnight… I hope it'll still turn out well. Oh, and I'm not sure if Al sleeps, but we can just pretend he does. And, if you don't like Elricest you can pretend the question at the end isn't there. ;D Because otherwise, it's just brotherly loving. xP
Ed had always been a little bit on the reckless side. He thought of course, he thought a lot. But a lot of the time he didn't think enough. Even when he did think things through, they always seemed to turn out wrong.
No one understands seemed to come up a lot. But, who was going to be able to relate to the situation of someone like him? His father turned out to be the very opposite of sane, his mother was dead, one arm and one leg were both automail…
And not because of some accident with a bomb like the norm would be, unless the norm happened to include human transmutation.
And his brother? His brother was a walking pile of armor, the quickest thing he could find to bring his brother back to life with.
Three years had passed, and they were really no closer to the Philosopher's Stone then they'd been when they started out.
All he'd gained was perhaps, an inch or two to his height in the past three years.
Ed had always been very sensitive about his height. Perhaps it was the fact that at the age of twelve, his brother whom had always been shorter than him; suddenly became almost a foot taller than him. Maybe it was the fact that the automail stunted his growth. Or, maybe if he just drank more milk he'd grow taller. He didn't like to think of that as an option though, seeing as how he hated milk.
He seemed to do a lot more thinking than most people did. Not thinking things through, but really just mulling over things in his mind.
One of his favorite things to do; was to think inside of his brother. It was really weird, but it was a sort of routine he had.
He never really knew if his brother knew what he did, though until that day.
He did what he normally did. He waited until his brother was asleep. Then he made his way across the room as slowly as possible, tiptoeing so as not to wake his brother up.
Then he would carefully pull the helmet off the top of the armor which had become his brother's body and slip inside, pulling the helmet on top.
While to most, it may have been cold inside of the armor, he felt a kind of warmth from it. He was just about to fall asleep actually, when Al's voice rang out as clear as day startling him.
"Nii-san, what are you doing?" He asked.
"Thinking. And I guess I was about to fall asleep to." Ed answered truthfully.
"But you do this all the time."
"I do a lot of thinking Al." 'And I never thought he knew.' He added inwardly.
"But, why do you think… here?" Al had paused there, almost as if not knowing what to say, before continuing.
"I'll move if you want." He said.
Silence followed, and Ed took that as a do what you like, and so he got out, feeling uncomfortable.
He walked across the room slowly, and lay down on the bed, facing away from his brother to stare at the wall.
Ed did a lot of thinking, but his best thinking was done inside of Al's temporary body. And inside of that temporary warmth, he always thought he knew the answer to his question, until it escaped him again.
Is this feeling something more, does he feel the same?
Inu Kaiba: All I'm hoping is that it made sense. I'm going to dedicate this one to Alice, because the other one I'm working on is kind of… Um… Well, it is Elricest. It's hard to explain. And I may not even do it. So; this one's for you Alice.